NEED HELP!! CORRUPT FILE

[Blackhawk556]

. I've tried a bunch of software that i downloaded which claim to recover corrupted files. none of them worked.
I've tried opening with different programs and none will open the file. I'm going to try for one more 1hr, if i can't recover the data i'm going to have to give up.






thanks for all the suggestions

[Wherryj]

if its not sensitive info, you can send it to my email and I can see if I can work my magic.

If this doesn't work, or you want to try to figure it out yourself you might try the pcmech forums. These guys are pretty good at fixing issues and typically respond within minutes.

http://www.pcmech.com/forum/

Another option if you are in the east bay/tri-valley area is a shop named QES computers. They can fix most issues for a reasonable price and Lawrence is a great guy.

[juicemansam]

I like challenges like this. If I may, I'd like a crack at this file.

[TWoods450]

even as a zip its corrupted, zip repair pulls a few extra files out but not the usefull stuff, just template data. OP Sent me the file, I have tried opening it in office 2007, 2008, 2010, google docs. ran it through a docx utility... each time used a fresh copy of the file.

[JDay]

Are you trying to open it with the same version of Office you saved it with? Different versions of Office have been known to have issues trying to open files that were created with a different version of Office.

[ke6guj]

I remembered that from a Microsoft seminar when Office 2007 came out and they talked about the new -x formats in Office.

What the OP may be able to do is move the document.xml file from the corrupted .docx file into a new .docx file and then open the new .docx file and recover the data. That was one thing that Microsoft mentioned, that even if a .docx file got corrupted, since it was just a zip file, that some of the data could be recovered.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.docx

[xrMike]

.docx files are basically just .zip files with a bunch of .xml documents saved within it.

You could try changing the extension to .zip, extracting the files contained within, and see if you can extract the data you need from the .xml files.

Interesting, I did not know that. It works exactly as you describe. The doc file is named "document.xml" in a folder named "word". You can open it with any text editor, or XML editor if you have one, but it will be a PIA extracting usable text, as there are way more XML tags than content.

[ke6guj]

.docx files are basically just .zip files with a bunch of .xml documents saved within it.

You could try changing the extension to .zip, extracting the files contained within, and see if you can extract the data you need from the .xml files.

[Corbin Dallas]

no, stupid me saved it only to the thumb drive

You can still attempt a recovery on the flash drive. Most all flash drives do not actually delete the program, merely re-distribute or re-allocate the space.

I've successfully recovered "deleted" files from my flash drive.

[TWoods450]

no dice man, sorry, that recovery thing chugged away all nigth and still came back with nothing,

[TWoods450]

I have it running in DocRepair right now, its been going for 2 hours or so, not sure how long its supposed to take, I will leave the reapir running all night. I'll let you know what happens in the morning.

[Blackhawk556]

do you happen to be on a mac? was the file created on mac? if so copy it to your desktop from the thumb-drive, change the .docx extension to .doc then double-click or click and drop onto the word app icon to see if it will open. try this on the (copied) original file (copied to your desktop), not the file you have tried everything else on.

no not on Mac

I have not idea how this occured
next time ill know


thanks

[RangerJoe]

do you happen to be on a mac? was the file created on mac? if so copy it to your desktop from the thumb-drive, change the .docx extension to .doc then double-click or click and drop onto the word app icon to see if it will open. try this on the (copied) original file (copied to your desktop), not the file you have tried everything else on.

[Blackhawk556]

still working on it man, trying a few things..

and opening as txt doesn't work too well anymore with docx because its essentially an XML file.

thanks i really appreciate it

[fdbizzle]

if u unhide system files/folders, might be ablet o see temp file